A Night to Remember
Peter Knowles Credited as the ‘most accurate depiction’ of the events of the Titanic on-screen, A Night to Remember is a documentary directed by Roy Ward Baker. Adapted from Walter Lord’s 1955 book of the same name, it offers a to-the-minute account of the disaster. The film captures the events with great detail through brilliant effects and set design, including multiple miniatures of the ship in its various stages of sinking, overlaid on top of passengers escaping on lifeboats. Scenes where the ship is listing were achieved by tilting the set itself, causing creaking noises that were edited over other shots of the boat listing. It mistakenly depicts the ship as intact when it was discovered that the ship split in two when the wreckage was found in 1985. Baker captures the attitudes and behaviour onboard as the ship began to sink, with many of the men holding onto the belief that they would be fine, incorrectly assuming that the ship had enough lifeboats. The film captures the chaos a
18 December 2024